Thanks to all!! I had the same feeling, why nobody has upload this video before. So I buy an older deck with the VHS on eBay, send it to a specialized store to convert it into a file, and here is the final product. I hope that you, as me enjoy this piece of Magic History.

@Nikku_King

8 жыл бұрын

+Jose Miguel Palma Contreras Thank you so much for this, Seriously, Thank you!

@DrScrambles

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@tinnitusthenight5545

5 жыл бұрын

Wow yeah thanks

@Xierfrogs

3 жыл бұрын

Holy crap, I had this VHS when I was younger. Wish I'd held onto it. What a blast from the past. Thank you so much for uploading

@manaman6971

3 жыл бұрын

Nice work my man

I was 17 years old and actively playing tournaments every saturday and remember this really well. Nostalgia for old magic hits the feels .

@marcelosmith1301

4 жыл бұрын

Parece que antigamente era melhor, Br

@Utubesuxmycock

2 жыл бұрын

Best days ever

Man this is so 90s.......takes me back.

These guys playing w/o sleeves is like those old hockey players who played with no helmet. They were just a tougher breed.

@fromryuk7785

Жыл бұрын

Actually you can see people having sleeved cards earlier on in the video during the convention hall pans. However when you got to the higher end of the tournament where they were going to record their matches they had to de-sleeve because the shitty cameras at the time couldn't handle the glare.

I still have the VHS of this, God I miss old school Magic. 😢

For years I have been waiting for someone to post this online. Thank you so much. So many memories watching this on VHS while playing with friends.

@gianni4327

5 ай бұрын

Those days were so good

Dude...I had this video on VHS, and used to watch it all the time. It got lost somewhere, and I never got to watch this again...finally SOMEONE uploaded it..thank you lol

"Newcomer, Randy Buehler" Is a hilarious phrase to hear in regard to magic the gathering.

A Pretty Deece video on TCGPlayer's channel sent me this way. This would be a few months before I actually got into Magic the Gathering. I love looking into those days and seeing what was happening. Man, the cringe watching unsleeved cards on pavement during the interviews... then again, many of my early games were played unsleeved on an old wood picnic table on my mom's porch. Learned from playing in the sun that I dislike foils lol.

@billepperson2662

Жыл бұрын

Watching literal good triumph over literal evil...

I played Magic against myself so much while watching this on repeat. That sounds sadder than it was, I promise.

@Utubesuxmycock

4 жыл бұрын

good ol days the glory!

@Utubesuxmycock

2 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha weve all been there in the 90s

The difference in the match came down to who did and did not have giant pants.

The most 90's opening ever

US Nationals used to be my favorite event every year. 4 days of nothing-but-Magic at a vacation spot. If you weren't qualified for Nats, you could play meatgrinders the day before in the hopes of winning a last-chance entry into the main event. If you didn't do that, there were limited and constructed flights of every variety firing off every 15 minutes. Some with super cool prizes. There were GPT's and PTQ's throughout the weekend. An enormous array of vendors, drafts back at the hotel ballrooms, and so much more. It was such a spectacle, but WotC did away with it (along with many other cool events).

My teenage years. God I miss 90's MTG.

@Utubesuxmycock

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. I play vintage now. I walk around my local game store annoying people asking if they play vintage. Nobody does lol. Its just me watching zoomers play EDH

I love the fact that this is now uploaded. This is the video that got me to want to play competitive MTG back in my teenage years.

3:26 Dominic Crappy-Shits.

@nickrandles1102

7 жыл бұрын

hahahaha dude i always noticed that. too fucking funny

@qotsajr

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

Young Weissman and Buehler!!! Wow this is classic material Some Gooooooood!!!

I cant even describe the feeling. I wasnt even alive during this time and got into mtg in 2012 but I really wish I got to play during ABU, 4 Horsemen era. MTG back then was MTG!

@barath4545

Жыл бұрын

I started in Revised, right after Dark got sold out. It was pretty cool, but damn you had to have a good memory. No google, no internet, no black/silver/gold for rarity, so REMEMBER ALL CARDS by heart from lists that were printed from hand-crafted lists till Dualist started being available to buy. I had issues 3 & 4 :) Still remember $12 duallands, $50 lotuses (didnt buy was too expensive for a 13 yr old), and later in 96, $100 HP beta lotuses etc.

@Zman82

11 ай бұрын

You're Right, but given when you were born you must have a old soul.

unsleeved decks... oh god, the horror!

@nickfanzo

7 жыл бұрын

Yawgmoth love it. hate sleeves

@MTGThrownDown

6 жыл бұрын

Yawgmoth yeah, that bugs me to end. Playing with no sleeves. I think the reason they don't play without sleeves is because they don't want glare for the broadcast. I could be wrong.

@scottjackson2771

5 жыл бұрын

You weren't allowed to because of the lighting. It'd be bad for the cameras.

@KingBobXVI

5 жыл бұрын

5:00 - oh god, not the pavement... D:

@godspeedhero3671

3 жыл бұрын

That's just how it was back then.

Omg just learned this was a thing, thank you for uploading!

3:25 to 3:28 pure gold

Taping an unsleaved Arabian nights city of brass on a steel bench >_

@Utubesuxmycock

2 жыл бұрын

That's the only way zoomer lol

Mtg was so much better back then. In fact everything was better, I wish I could return to 1998 😢

Good video. Remind me my childhood when this was release.

DOMINICK CRAPPYSHITS 3:16 I CANT BREATHE

Was 13 when I played mtg in 94...this video brings back good memories

I had this on VHS!!!!

this video got me into the game on a competitive level

That last match was awesome! A real kick in the nuts! The young gun took down the seasoned vet~

@Cryxboy

5 жыл бұрын

He wasn't so much a seasoned vet as he was a seasoned well-known cheater.

“He can’t kill him he can’t kill him he has a disenchant in his hand!” Classic lol.

1:48 These are the rare species; MTG Hoboes in their natural habbitat.

Oh my god i finally found this!!

Imagine going back in time with cards from now and watch there minds get blown.

@RomeoBarnes

6 жыл бұрын

Gamer Geek right

@DrewskiTheLegend

2 жыл бұрын

“Yeah I’ll trade you this grave titan for your underground sea bro. I promise, it’ll be huge one day”

8 dead minutes at the end. That sure is some Wizards of the Coast quality content right there.

"You were so close to dead dude..." Famous last words...

What about the 1998 World Championship final? Could anyone upload It?

35:26 "Check his lap again!'

Funny thing about Long. 29:28. About the only thing he didn't do to Finkel here was curb-stomp him for real. The double-Pyroblast was a bit much.

That comment about Long drawing two cards though....even in '98 he was known as a cheater!

@stonesec

2 жыл бұрын

literally laughed out loud when they said that, good lord

that dude Ryan Kelly was rad

7:35 "Long got better luck getting off his combo". This phrase didn't aged well.

@Utubesuxmycock

2 жыл бұрын

Hahahahahaha

22:53 did some one drop the F bomb? Lol oh man. I wish I had been old enough to play magic when it first came out....

Haha, still got my VHS copy of this video!

Finkel is so young

2:10 Cards on cement

Love when cheaters get salty AF

42:02 HA HA HA!!! HA HA!! 😃😄😆😅😂🤣 That HAS to be the funniest fucking moment I've EVER heard on M:TG commentary 🥳

I love listening to Chris Pikula get excited as his arch enemy doesn’t win.

29:50 Drain life you for 40 Hahahaha Long

I still have the soltari monks :)

Kelly is the marky mark of magic in this

sure

THESE were the days for MTG! You couldn't just go online and download a tested deck and go buy it from some website. Game got stale after the Internet took off.

@3:26

47:24 Huh, I never knew Ralph Garman played magic!? Not only that, he looks SO young here, not unlike that Bryce fellow

Mike long is a cheater anyway.

@Utubesuxmycock

4 жыл бұрын

you neckbeards sure do love to hate dont you? unleash the neckbeard virgin wrath!

@T_Peazy

4 жыл бұрын

@@Utubesuxmycock Lol. Nice.

It feels kinda wild how far this game has come. Crap, I could beat some of those decks with my Mono-Blue Faerie deck. That's power creep for you.

Justice was served.

@christopherlapp4553

11 ай бұрын

Mark Justice wasn’t in this video, haha

Yup JNCO jeans and mtg. That’s the 90’s

No sleeves while playing hurts No sleeves on the sidewalk and on the bench... the horror...

@Utubesuxmycock

4 жыл бұрын

those were the good ol days yah fking ZOOMER we used to play on sidewalks and sci fi convention floors!

@godspeedhero3671

3 жыл бұрын

@@Utubesuxmycock Exactly, back when Magic felt like a for fun game.

@AIMLESS-NAMELESS

3 жыл бұрын

It’s even worse, those cards on the bench are vampiric tutors

"I prefer Michael Long"

22:52 Ahhhh Fuck!

No Sleeves; OMG!!! Hahaha

Everyone looked so normal. Nowadays your local LGS is a fucking freak show.

@Utubesuxmycock

2 жыл бұрын

No joke man. Good ol days when guys were just regular nerds

@SirRorschachJack

23 күн бұрын

Ya the colorful they them rainbows 🌈 in the shops now.

Anyone think the narrator is trying too hard to be the Pokemon anime narrator?

@35:14 me too buddy.. me too

What is wrong with Long...

@lenajohnson6179

4 жыл бұрын

He's a sociopath

37:30 tho Even the judge was laughing

5:20 the horror

Listen as the screams of millions cry out in horror from the unsleeved decks when sleeves were not required and most people probably did not care about the value. Its pretty entertaining to watch the cringe. Also the guy narrating the deck list sounds like the Digimon Emperor from Gen 2

@Thebrianweissman

3 жыл бұрын

Haha, “the guy narrating” is actually me, reading off a quick script I wrote in a studio in New York 23 years ago! The cringe is real, but man, I remember being pretty proud of this 😜 The reason the players aren’t using sleeves is because you were literally forbidden to use them in the top 8, due to concerns about glare and the cameras. Contrary to what others are saying, many older cards were already quite valuable by 1998, though standard-legal cards less so.

@explosivehotdogs

2 жыл бұрын

For real. Once upon a time MTG was not a collector-sport. I guess that's supply and demand for ya.

Dominic how? 3:27

Who are the commentators?

@Nublyk

7 жыл бұрын

Chris Pikula is one, IDK the other though.

@Juzamdan55

5 жыл бұрын

Brian Weissman

@lachlank.8270

Жыл бұрын

Dominic Crapnshits

No sleeves. ah man!

3:25 Finkel defeated Crappyshits :D.

long and his ego

Abeyance for the win!! Daaaang. hahahaha

Watching this material today is frustrating because who care about the players? I wanted depts about the decks of course

If I played against long I would have reached over the table and knocked him out. He’s so annoying

@arielw3178

4 жыл бұрын

He's also a cheater

@cheeseburgerpaladin

3 жыл бұрын

Could you please explain? I'm new to magic

@krimson2293

3 жыл бұрын

@@cheeseburgerpaladin Mike Long is a notorious cheater from the early professional magic scene. I’m pretty sure you can even see it here, he draws two cards somewhere in his match.

@DrewskiTheLegend

2 жыл бұрын

@@cheeseburgerpaladin he is most infamous for being caught with a copy of cadaverous bloom in his lap while piloting a combo deck in which it was a central combo piece.

@johnnyjoestar4473

2 жыл бұрын

@@DrewskiTheLegend To be specific, the exact location of the Bloom varies from recounting to recounting. This particular one always kind of irked me, as Long was famous for perching on his chair, a position that doesn't really provide him a lap. Others comedically said that the Bloom was physically taped to the bottom of his chair. The most likely one, however, is the obvious location of on top of the chair seat near his feet.

sooo much simpler. Creature combat oriented. Basic land

@rodzeroher

5 жыл бұрын

this was just a few months away from combo winter, people hadn't realized how broken some tempest cards were until Urza Sagas brought the enablers

@downsjmmyjones101

5 жыл бұрын

What about Pros Bloom?

@3:27 is that guys last name really crappy shits

@SirRorschachJack

23 күн бұрын

It's probly spelt crapschits or some version way. Obviously not crap shits...

Dominic Crapnshits?

city of brass no damage. haha

Mike Long made the game 10x more interesting to watch hahahaha

Only thing that's gotten better since that time is the coverage. Everything else has gone spiraling downwards in this game.

Ah, Mike Long, the original big name cheater.

It's weird seeing this guys just raw-dog their cards like that. I could never play a deck without sleeves.

Long came up short.

Anyone remember when commander was calling elder dragon format and was just a simple made up mode by a few random guys?

Really ethnically diverse final 8 lol

You can tell that Mike lawn guy is a total jerk

it hurts my soul seeing un-sleeved cards being handled

I love this game. BLIZZARD I can make you money.